linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: Correctly check d_alloc_name() return code in devpts_pty

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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:56:12 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Correctly check d_alloc_name() return code in
 devpts_pty_new

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:29:11PM +0300, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> d_alloc_name return NULL in case error, but we expect errno in
> devpts_pty_new.
> 
> http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
> ---
>  fs/devpts/inode.c |    2 +-

Nice, but I'm not the devpts maintainer, why not send this to the vfs
maintainer instead?

thanks,

greg k-h
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